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GENESIS and REVELATIONS 

OF THK FORMKR 

alifornta Society of Sons of 
Rct)olutionarv Sires'' 

BUT NOW THE 

GalifoFnia Society of Son| of the ^meFii?an 

f}euolution 





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STONES LAID 



IN THE ItASK Ol' THK 



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SLOAT MONUMENT AT MONTEREY. 



I 'AST 1-ACK COMPLKTl'D. 

I'. S AriiiN, Mariposa Co., Kern Co., l^asseii Co., Employees U. S. N. Yard, U. S. Navy 
Sail Dieyc Co., San Bernardino Co., Plumas Co., Placer Co., vSan Joaquin Co., N.S.G.W., V.M.W. 
Monterey Co., Santa Cruz Co., Contra Costa Co., Santa Clara Co., Alameda, Co., Pioneers 

NORTH FACE COMPLETED. 

U.S.N., Cal. Miners, Butte Co., Mendocino Co., Bear Flag, Daughters Am. Revolution, G.A.R. 
Vets Mexican War, N. I). G \V., C. P. R. R., Sonoma Co., Lake Co., Mas. Vets. Pacific Coast 
California, San F'raiicisco Co., vSacramento Co., Solano Co., Napa Co., Public Schools 

SOUTH FACE HALF DONE DECEMBER 25, 1904. 

Rear .Admiral S. F. Dupont, Los Angeles Co., U. vS. A. 

San Benito Co., Cal. Fed. Woman's Clubs, San Diego 

Presidents, I'. S. .\. Santa Barbara Co., Ventura Co., San Luis Obispo Co.. Monterey Co. 

WEST FACE NEARLY HALF DONE DECEMBER 25, 1904. 

Grand .Vrmyofthe Republic, 

Mas. Vets. .Assn. 

Public Schools, California Pioneers, Oakland, San Mateo Co., Consul Parrott, President's 



48 .STONES LAID. iS MORE RI-;yLIRED 1-OR THE BASE. 




Rear Admiral JOHN DRAKl' vSI.OAT, U. S. N. 
Son of Capt. John Sloat of the American Army in the Revtjlutioiuiry War for Independence. 

Born July 26, 1781, at Sloatbtiry, nenr Goshen, Rocklind Coutity, New York. 

Midshipman, U. S. Navy, February 12th, 1800. 

Sailing Master U. S. Navy, February 7th, 1812. (He manceuvered the frigate "United States" under Com- 
modore Decatur, when he captured the crack frigate "Macedouian," of the British Navy, October. 25th, 1812 
and received the thanks of Congress ) 

Lieutenant, July 24th, 1S12, (Commanded the schooner "Grampus," and suppresses Cofrecinas, the last ot 
the West India pirates, in March, 1S25, who was captured and shot.) 

Post Captain, February 9th, 1S37. 

Commodore, November 1st, 1843. (August 27th, 1S44, ordered to command the Pacific Squadron, and on 
July 7tli. 1S46, took possession of California and hoisted the American flag at Monterey. He located the Navy 
Yard at Mare Island, California, in iS.SJ.l 

Rear Admiral on the Retired List, .•Vugust 6th, 1S66. 

Died at Staten Island, New York, November 28lh. 1867, aged 86 vears. 4 tnontl's and 2 days. 

Buried with Masonic and Nnval-Military honors m Greenwo >d Cenit-lery, L. t.. by St. Nicholas Lodge, No. 
321, F. & A. M., and Tompkinsville Lodge, F. «.fc A. M., and the Nival I?:iUalijii of .Vlariues and Sailors, Novem- 
ber 30th, 1867. 

MONUMKNT BEING ERECTED AT MONTERI'lY. 






THE 

GENESIS AND REVELATIONS 

ifliiiiiiimwiiiiiiiifiB" 

in"T NOW Till'; 

California Society of Sons of the American Resolution 



" I know him a notorious liar, 

Think him a great way fool, solely a cowanl, 

Yet these fixed evils so fit on hitii 

That they take place. 

Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and ParoUes, live 

Safest in shame: l)eing fooled, by fooling thrive; 

1 here's ])lace and means for every man alive." 

— Shakespeare. 

CHAPTER I. 

Oil March 3ril, 1 871, President U. S. (tRANt signed the first bill 
for the Centennial Exposition and Celebration of the looth Annixcr- 
sary of American Independence at Philadelphia, and Congress made 
an appropriation of three millions of dollars. On June ist, 1872, he 
approved the bill incorporating the Centennial Exposition with no 
less than 768 incorporators selected from every Congressional District 
in the I'nited States and personally named in the Act. Those named 
from California were A. S. Hallidie, Thom.\s H. Selby, George 
OuLTON, Nathan Coombs, William C. Ralston, Milton S. La- 
THOM, Leland Stanford, Edgar Mills, L. B. Mizni;r, John J. 
I )i; Haven. John G. Downey and T. Ellard Beans. 

On December 29th, 1872, under an Act of Congress, the Hon. 
James G. Blaine, the Speaker of that Body, appointed the Commit- 
tee of Arrangements to have charge of the Celeljration, all of whom 
were of direct Revolutionary descent, and the following Representa- 
tives were appointed the said Committee, viz.: William D. Kelley, 
of Philadelphia, Penn ; Henry L. Dawes, of Pittsfield, Mass.; Hor- 
ace Maynard, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Aaron A. Sargent, of Nevada 
City. Cal.; Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut: Harrison E. Ha- 
vens, of Missouri; Samiel S. Cox, of New N'ork ; Samuel S. Mar- 
shall, of Illinois; and John Hancock, of Texas. This Committee 
of Arrangements selected the following Sons of Re\ olulionary Sires as 



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"Officers of the Day : Gen. U. S. Grant, President of the United vStates, 
President of the Day; Richakd Henry Lee, of Viro;inia, whose 
grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence, — Reader, — to 
read the original Manuscript; Bayard Taylor, the Poet of the Day, 
a grandson of another signer; and the Hon. Wm. M. EvarTvS, Orator 
•of the Day, and the grandson of Roger Sherman, one of the Com- 
mittee with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin 
and Philip Livingston, appointed to draft the Declaration of Amer- 
ican Independence. 

Here it may be truly .said was the first real organization of the 
Sons of RcYolutionary Sires, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons 
•of the Revolution, or by whatever name the descendants of the Fathers 
of American Independence maj^ be called, organized under an Act of 
Congress of December 29, 1872, three years and a half before the 4th 
•day of Jul\', 1876, and two years and four months before any other 
organization of the descendants of Revolutionary ancestry whatever 
was formed. 

On the 19th ot April, 1875, the citizens of the State of Massachu- 
setts celebrated the Centennial Anniversary on the same sacred soil, 
the battles of Lexington and Concord, with all the eclat that was pos- 
sible, and they heard the echoes returning "of the shot that was fired 
and heard around the world." A full report as given in the newspa- 
pers of that day is still in my possession. On the 17th of June follow- 
ing (1875), the Centennial Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill 
-^vas celebrated on a still larger scale, with a little more than a year to 
intervene before the Centennial Anniversary of American Independ- 
ence was to be celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the 
Republic 

Nothing had been done, however, for making any preparation for 
that event on the Pacific .Coast, except the primary organization of 
the National vSociety of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, at the office of 
Dr. James L. Cogswell, at No. 230 Kearny Street, San Francisco, 
California, on October 22, 1875. 

At that time I was City Surveyor of Gold Hill and De])uty U. S. 
Mineral Surveyor of the State of Nevada. Having business which 
called me to San Francisco, and having some dentistry work to be im- 
mediately done, I went to the office of Dr. James L. Cogswell on 
the morning of Friday, October 22, 1875, who took the matter at once 
in hand, and told me to call in the evening and it would be ready for 
me. When I arrixed there at the appointed time, and being old Pion- 
eer friends and ac(|uaintances, be invited me to remain, as there were 
to be some other gentlemen to come in, and they were to hold a little 
])atriotic meeting. I therefore remained, and the following gentlemen 



and old friends caniL- in : Dr. Petkr Wilkins Ranole, Capt. Rich- 
ard Risii Randle, Ika C. Root, Dr. ICmorv L. Willard, and I 
think Judj^tr Joseph Weed, and one or two more: hut A. S. Htb- 
HAKD was not known or present. 

Dr. James L. Cogswell, after a little, arose and briefly stated the 
objects for which he liad invited them to be present, which was to 
orj:faiii/,e a society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, for the purpose of 
j^ettinj; ready and making preparations for the celebration of the Cen- 
tennial .\nniversary of American Independence, and perpetuating the 
Societ\-, and nominated Dr. Peter Wilkins Randle, an old Army Sur- 
geon and well known as Chairman of the meeting, and to be the Pres- 
ident of the Society. To this Dr. Randle decidedly objected and 
protested against it, and in turn nominated Dr. James L. Cogswell, 
who had invitetl them to his office for that patriotic purpose, and on 
motion Dr. Cogswell was unanimously elected. 

On motion, the name for the proposed organization was, '"The 
Caliioknia Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires." To this 
1 aro.se and objected, as I was then a citizen of the State of Nevada, 
and it would rule me out. I said, make it a Na/iona/ Sociefy at the 
start, and if Nevada was to be represented in it, as there was no one 
else there present from that State, that I would serve as a Vice-Presi- 
dent, if it was their wish, and represent the .society as one of its dele- 
gates at the Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia, as I had to be 
there on July 4, 1S76. 

At this, Dr. Randle then moved that the organization l)e called 
"Thi-. Xatio.val Society oi* Sons of Rexolutionary Sires," 
wliich was unanimously carried. 

PRIMARY ORGAN rz ATI OX. 

' On motion, the following officers were declared elected by acclama- 
tion, viz.: Dr. Ja:\ies L. Cogswell, National President; Dr. Peter 
Wilkins Randi.e, \'ice-President for California: and Major PIdwin 
A. SmCRMAN, \'ice-President for the State of Nevada. The other offi- 
cers serving pto tern., their election was to be deferred until the next 
meeting to be called by the President. 

The next morning I took my departure for (iold Hill, Nevada, but 
authorizing Dr. Jami'S L. Cogswell to sign my name to the Consti- 
tution, when adopted, and as X'icc-President for Nevada. 

The burning of Virginia City had deranged all business there, and 
I sent my famil\- ICast on a visit to friends in Illinois. 

I wa> aiijitiinted alternate delegate in ]>lai"e of Hon. Wm. K. Sharon, 
to the National Republican Convention to meet in Cincinnati in June, 
1S76, and as all the Railroad Companies in the United States were giv- 



ing free passes to Veterans of the Mexican War to go and return 
from the Centennial Celebration at Philadelphia on July 4, 1876, I 
availed myself of that liberality, and attended at both places, as the 
Representative of the Republican Party of Nevada, the Veterans of 
the Mexican War, and as Vice-President of the Sons of Revolutionary 
Sires, and returned to Gold Hill in September, 1876, having lost a 
little daughter by death in Illinois, which greatly saddened my 
pleasure. 

I knew nothing of what had been done in San Francisco until I 
removed there in August, 1877, when Dr. James L. Cogswell gave 
me the following account of intrigue, scheming and trickery in con- 
nection with the Sons of the Revolutionary Sires, and a history of 
the same, of which he and the other Founders of that organization 
had been made the victims, and of which he and myself are the only 
survivors, and still retaining our offices of President and Vice-Presi- 
dent, until our successors are chosen by a revival with new members, 
or the same will expire at our deaths. 

According to Dr. Cogswell's statement given to me, the account of 
what had occurred during my absence in Nevada and the East is as 
follows : 

"Subsetiuent to this finst meeting on October 22, 1875, during the 
rainy season, on a rainy afternoon sonre of the members with other 
gentlemen called to pay a friendly visit, and while there, the subject 
of Revohrtionary aircestry was mentioned, and further inquiry was 
made, who among theru had relatives in the Revolutionary War? and 
several stated that they also were descended from Revolutionary stock. 
It was then suggested that another meeting be held, inviting all in 
the city who had relatives in the American Revohrtion. We casu- 
ally met on the street and spoke about the kind of regalia that would 
be appropriate, banner, badges, etc., on the coming Fourth of July. 
To save expense, I called a meeting at my office. No 230 Kearny 
Street, by ad\-ertising in the Alta-Caiifomia newspaper, on June 26th, 
1876, imruediately upon reading a communication from a lady of 
Revolutionary ancestry. The communication and my adxertisement 
were as follows : 

THK PATRIOTIC I.ADV'S COMMUNICATION. 

"Editor Alta : 

"Wouldn't it be a most novel but strikingly interesting idea in the ])rograni 
of the procession for our City Centennial Celebration, to have represented our 
grandparents of the Revolution by the grandchildren now living, residents of 
this city ? There might not be a single living sm or laughter, but, no doubt, 
there might be a score or more of real grandchiMren. 

"Wouldn't it be splendid if enough could be found to represent every State 
in the Union, to ride in a car sufficiently large to t- nry them all. each one carry- 







WILLIAM MAXWIvLL WOOD, U. S. X. 
A Gramlson of Revolutionary Ancestry. 

Fleet Surgeon Pacific Sqiindron, 1S46. Surgeou General U. S. Navy, 1869. 

This oflficer voliiiilarily iindettooVc ihe perilous risk to enter Mexico and cross tliat country to learn the 
condition of nff.tirs. and nt Guadalajara first, and afterwards at the City of Mexico, learned that war had actu- 
ally connncnced >>etwe»*n the two countries; ai il, but for the daring courage of this gallant oHicer, whose skill 
and adroitnrs- in sending the information to Commodore Sloat at Mazatlan, California would have been lost to 
the American I'liion: Mid instead of being one of the United States, would now be a British province. 

Says Commodore Si.oat in his It-tter Iroin New York, 2<.th March, 1855; "The information you furnished me 
at Ma/atlan from GuadalRJRra. (at Ihe risk of your life,) was the only reliable information I received of that 
event, and which induced me to proced immediately to California, and upon my own responsibility to take 
possession of that country, which I dui on the 7(h of July, l"^46." 

Says Dr. Wood iu his account of the intelligence he learned at the City of Mrxico: "All this information I 
again sent to the Comniandiiig Ollicer of the I'acific Squadron, siening mv letter bv an easily understood hiero- 
glyphic, and sending it through the Mexican mail under cover to the subject of a neutral power." 

NOTK. — It was this last positive information sent by way of Guadalajara, that warranted Commodore 
Sloat to act. 

MKnAI.LION TO mC J'l.ACKD ON THK PEDKSTAI. OI- THE SI.OAT MONUMENT AT MONTEREY. 



ing a small flag with the name of the State they represent, and the car designated 
'The Revolutionary Grandchildren? ' "^ "' * 

"All honor to our glorious, noble grandparents to-day. I could tell many, 
many incidents that they all have related to me, so green and fresh, and heart- 
stirring to-day to me as when a child I heard them from their own lips, which I 
have told nnself to many a dear little child in this city, to try to explain what 
the 4th of July or Inde])endence means. These things must be kept before the 
minds of our voung and rising gei'eration, for, from some of them, at least, must 
come the future support of the whole fabric so dearly won by those martyred 
heroes, whose cry — Liberty or Death — went up to the ears of a willing, merciful 
Father, to relieve us from tyranny and oppression, making a home for all to wor- 
ship as they choo?e, and to buy, sell and get gain, and send it where they list. 

•'If the General of the Day thinks anything of this — for I know you will let 
him see it — tell him that I want to go and carry the old Bay State flag, mj^ dear 
native home, which I have not seen for fourteen years. I am the widow of one 
of the victims of ihe privateers of our last war, living in obscurity. 
"Yours, etc.. 

This coniiiiunication appearing, Dr. James L,. Cogswell, the Presi- 
dent of the National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires (which 
had kept up its organization from the date of its first meeting, and 
myself, its Vice- Pre.si dent for Nevada, then its representative already 
in Philadelphia, to attend the National Celebration in charge of the 
Committee appointed by Congress), issued the following notice in the 
Alla-California of June 26, 1876 : 

RKVOU'TIONARY DESCENDANTS. 

"Editor Alta : 

"The idea suggested by the grand daughter of one of our Revolutionary sires, 
seems a capital one; and as I belong in the same categorj^ with your correspond- 
ent, being the grandson of one of the Revolutionary heroes, I shall be happy to 
have all who belong to this class call at my office, No. 230 Kearny vStreet, and or- 
ganize for the occasion. 

"[Signed] J. L. Cogswell. 

"vSan I'Vancisco, June 26, 1S76." 

"Some few came to my office and enrolled; but Gen. Winn's 
friends had informed others that no meeting would be held at my 
olhce, and Charles Wiggin, Chief of Staff to the Grand Marshal (Gen. 
Winn), on June 2Sth, 1876, issued a call to descendants of Revolution- 
ary Patriots to meet at the headquarters on Tlnirsday, June aytli, at 
8 p. i\i., at 212 Kearny St., which was at Dr. Birge's, a few doors below. 

"When I got there, the meeting was organized and officers elected. 
Gen. A. M. Winn in the chair. I did not attend any of iheir meet- 
ings at the Palace Hotel or Dashaway Hall and by their actions I feel 
almost positive that I did not march with them on July 4, 1876; for 
Gen. Winn and his party had made this bold attenii)t to steal our 
organization, and Major E. A. Sherman and I are the onl\ living 



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founders of the 'vSons of Revolutionary Sires,' which has changed its 
name to 'Sons of the American Revolution.' They stole it from us by 
preventiu}^^ the meeting being held at my office on the evening of June 
28, 1876. 

"After they organized, some of their party called and asked me to 
give them Fifteen Dollars ($15.00), and by paying them that amount, 
they would put my picture in a book they intended publishing; but I 
most emphatically declined. I presume that was the reason why they 
ignt)red me. 

"Ye.s, I well remember that you requested me to sign your name 
to the Constitution when adopted. 

"I also remember that Major Sherman and Hubbard went from my 
office, which was then in the Evening Post Building, corner of Bush 
and Kearny, to a Xotarj' Public. 

"/'. .S". — The Whm Party cannot ante-date my notice in the Alta- 
Califoruia of June 26, 1876, nor what we did at the very first meeting 
held at my office on October 22, 1875, when we temporarily organ- 
ized the 'National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires' ten months 
before. J. I,. COGSWELL. 

"Sitka, Alaska, Nov. nth, 1904." 

This action on tlie i)art of Gen. A. M. Winn was perfectl}' charac- 
teristic of the individual, whom we knew from the days of 1849. Some 
of his fellow jiassengers who came with him to California asserted that 
he i)reparetl the plan of a charter for a city while en route, and which 
he wanted to pi ster on vSacramento City; but the Mexican laws being 
still in force, his plan would not work, and he had to pocket it, but 
subsecjuently l)ecame connected with its City Government. He had 
an insatiable thirst for office so long as there was great publicity and 
political position and imaginary influence connected with jt. 

In the middle Fifties at Sacramento, A. M. Winn was Major Gen- 
eral conuuanding that division of the State Militia of Califf)rnia, and 
follctwing the old-time custom of the Atlantic States of fall training 
and muster, he issued an order for all of the enrolled militia, including 
the uniformed companies, to assemble at Sacramento, to pass in review 
before him and his staiT, in front of the Orleans Hotel on Second 
Street, between J and K .streets of that city. 

At that time there were two uniformed companies in Sacramento; 
the vSuTTKR RiFLKS, connuauded by Capt. CoRSE, and the CiTv 
Guard, commanded by the late Capt. L. L. B.\ker, of the firm of 
Baker & Hamilton, who prepared to comply with the order as in duty 
bound accordingly. But the Enrolled Militia, not knowing exactl)' 
what to do, and not having received any previous instructions or 



directions, weie left in a quandary and doubt, by the absurdity and 
ridiculousness of such a military order at that time and in so new a 
country. 

A spirit of mischief and fun spontaneously manifested itself among 
the entire people of the City and County of Sacramento, and with sup- 
pressed mirth, but with an intensity of determination of purpose, they 
secretly and quietl}'' prepared for this great military event, and to give 
it all the eclat possible. 

Gen. Winn, at the appointed hour, took his position with his staff 
on the balcony of the Orleans Hotel, with a compact body of citizens 
behind him, who were determined that he should review the whole 
parade, and not leave until everything had passed in front of him for 
inspection as he looked down nearly twenty feet into the street to wit- 
ness the moving pageant. 

With a band of music leading, Capt. Corse commanding the bat- 
talion of the Sutter Rifles and Capt. L. L. Baker of the City 
Guard passed in review in proper military order. Then came several 
hundred men in fantastic uniforms according to each man's taste, and 
carrying all sorts of weapons. They were very large and rotund, and 
if they weighed as heavy as they looked, four of them would have 
weighed a ton. These were known as the "Windy Guards," and 
were commanded b\- Capt. Windygutz, whose commands and the 
evolutions of his company were not in accordance with any known 
military tactics. These were followed by the "Sheet Ironsides 
Cavalry," mounted on mules, led by Dan Virgil Gates, the actor, 
clad in sheet iron armor, brandishing a lance, the shaft of which was 
a stovepipe with a tremendous broad sheet-iron arrowhead for a spear. 
Following this cavalry came the Flying Artillery of abovit thirty 
yoke of oxen, driven by teamsters and hauling the smoke-stack of a 
river steamer mounted on wheels. Then came the Quartermaster and 
Commissary Departments, reprCvSented by four-legged jackasses and 
mules heavily loaded down and trying to make headway by marching 
in gum boots. Then a promiscuous lot of made-up Chinamen with 
gongs, and behind them a lot of buck goats whose rears were painted 
in red, white and blue circles, with little American flags on sticks tied 
hard and fast to their tails. The last of that military procession con- 
sisted of a mixed team of lame horses, mules and oxen, hauling an old 
broken-down Concord coach or hack covered with black, and bearing 
a cloth sign, marked "Hareas Corpus." It took several hours for 
that militar}' parade and bnrlesciue procession to pass, r.nd Gen. Winn, 
whose foolish order had invoked all of this display, could not retire, 
but perforce was compelled to remain and see it all. It was his last 
review in Sacramento. I was present and witnessed it all in common 



with tlumsands of others, from the sidewalk, and a similar description 
perhaps may be found in the files of the Sacramento UnioJi of that date, 
while I write from menior}- as [ saw it. 

Gen. Winn left Sacramento afterwards and went to San Francisco 
where his Falstafhan military instincts led him into public notice, and 
he attained the object of his ambition in being elected Grand Marshal 
of the Centennial 4th of July Celebration in 1876. 

Of those who attended the first meeting of the preliminary organi- 
zation on October 22, 1S75, at Dr. Cogswell's office, only one, Dr. 
Kinor\- L. Willard, went over to the Winn Party on June 29. 1876, 
and he was made the Secretary of that meeting, when Gen. Winn was 
elected Chairman and afterwards President, Dr. Cogswell took no 
])art in that meeting, and, as I understand, without his knowledge or 
consent he was enrolled as Xo. 22. 

Mr. William S. Moses was not present at that meeting, but joined 
at the Palace Hotel on July ist, 1876. as No. 29, at which time he was 
elected Marshal of the California Society of Sons of Revolutionary 
Sires, and which position he held for 21 years; and but for him, Wm. 
B. Eastin and some others, and his support, that societ}' would not 
now be in existence. 

Those who desired to turn out with that Society on July 4th, 1876, 
were Dr. Pktkr Wii.kins Raxulk and Ira C. Root, but did not 
cease membership in the original National Organization. 

The California Society, under the C>en. Winn Administration, be- 
came dorinaut; he left San Francisco, and the members, disgusted 
at the state of affairs generally, ceased to take interest, though it con- 
tinued to be an undissolved incorporated body. 

CHAPTER n. 

Through the kindness of Mr. William S. Moses, I have been 
permitted to copy the entire roll of ninety-nine members as printed 
from the records, with the Constitution and By-Laws of that Society in 
1876, and printed at the Alta-Califomia office; and I herewith present 
it, as evidence, to show the fraud, lying, deceit and fal.se pretenses of 
A. S. HuBBAUiJ. A. D. CuTLKR, President, and others, in the face of 
the roll and who knowingly, willfully and deliberately lied, he or they 
having a printed copy of that Roll. Constitution and By-Laws, in their 
po.ssession, when they claim that "Col. A. S. Hubbard who aided in 
its inception y etc., in the history of that Society, which claims to have 
been instituted October 22, 1875, when he was not present and totally 
unknown on that date, and had no part in it; and that "Thkrkfore 

IT RECOGNIZES HIM AS THE FoUNDER OF THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETV 

OF THE Sons of the American Revolution and therefore as 



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THE Founder of the Society at Large, as set forth in their 
Circular No. 72, — an open bare-faced lie and theft of other men's 
ideas and labors. Any society that will stand behind and uphold such 
liars and thieves deserves the utter contempt of every honest man 
and the community at large, and it is unworthy the name of American 
and should be buried in oblivion. 
But here is the actual 

Roll of Members of the California Society of Sons of 
Revolutionary Sires, 

Of which A. S. Hubbard is No. 96, and vidio joined the Society on 
September 6, 1876, or ten months after it was first instituted, as 
proven by the roll and the records. 



1 A. M. Winu (dead) 

2 Emory L. Willard (dead) 

3 Caleb T. Fay (dead) 

4 Charles Siskron 

5 J. Doolittle 

6 John J. P. Davisson (dead) 

7 Joseph Sharon (dead) 

8 Samuel Graves (dead) 

9 Da 'las A. Kneass (dead) 

10 R. R. Strain 

11 J. B. Worden 

12 W. H. Mead (dearl) 

13 W. B. Eastin 

14 Z. K. Hersum 

15 Thomas H. Greenough 

16 James P. Dameron (dead) 

17 John Turner 
iS J. E Clark 

19 John Newman Finch 

20 Laurence V. Hogeboom (dead) 

21 Charles A. Seeley (expelled) 

22 James L. Cogswell 

23 Charles McOuesten 

24 Iv. B. Lyman 

25 Alfred S. Tredale (dead) 

26 Peter Wilkins Randle (dead) 

27 Thomas M. Converse 

28 H. II. Kiker (dead) 

29 William S. Moses 

30 Charles M Blake (dead) 

31 Bradford B. Stevens 

32 Uriah Wallace 

33 Charles D. Wallace 

34 James Hamilton 

35 Joseph M. Paulding 



36 David W. Nixon 

37 Eben R. York 

38 John M. Robinson (dead) 

39 J. M. Chichester 

40 C. H. Peck 

41 Ira C. Root (dead) 

42 Geo. W. Stevens 

43 Wm. F. Stevens 

44 Wm. F. Burbank 

45 Eugene K. Sykes 

46 John F. York 

47 S B. Leavitt (dead) 

48 Warren Holt 

49 A. M. Seabury 

50 H. T. Graves (dead) 

51 A. B. Graves (dead) 

52 Daniel E. Hayes 

53 Samuel M. Hunt 

54 Asa R. Wells (dead) 

55 Andrew Dunlap 

56 Charles Stevens 

57 Phineas U. Blunt 

58 George E. Scheuck 

59 Augustus E Taylor (dead) 

60 Josiah A. Baldwin 

61 Joseph vSuniner (dead) 

62 Alfred W. lUmes 

63 J. M. Adams 

64 J. Mc Henry 

65 Charles E. Blake (dead) 

66 J. A. F. Davis 

67 J. B. F. Davis 

68 James N. Makins (dead) 

69 Col. J. D. Stevenson (dead) 

70 L. H. Langdon (dead) 



^ 




Cu.M.MoiJoKi-, ROlilvRT ilKLD ST( )CK.'iX)N, U. S. N. 
(From a paintiiij^; on ivory, owned by his son, Hon. John I". Stockton.) 

(iraiidsoii of Richard Stockton of New Jersey, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

The successor in command of Commodore John D. Sloat, U. S. N., who in his official Report said : 
"On the 23rd (of July) my health being such as to prevent mv attending to so much and such laborious 
duties. I directed Commodore Stockton to assume the command of the forces and operations on shore; and on 
the Jqih. Irtvinu determined to return to the United States, via Panama, I hoisted my broad pennant oti the 
"Levant" and sailert for Maratlan and Panama, leaving the remaintier of the squadron under his command," 
etc.— E. A. S. 



MKDAI.I.ION TO hi: ri.ACKD ON THE PHnF-:STAL OF THE SLOAT MONUMENT AT MONTEREY. 



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71 Charles II. Pra^' 86 Josiah Earl 

72 George B. Toluiaii 87 Hon. W. H. Barton 

73 John W.Johnson 88 W. W. Bidlack 

74 Amos Adams (dead) 89 Wm. Shej)ard Dewey 

75 Ezra S. Carr 90 Capt. J. S, Marston (dead) 

76 David Bush 91 Frank B. Austin 

77 John Wilson (dead) 92 B. A. Bidlack 

78 C. C. Williams 93 Guy C. Earl 

79 Charles G. Noyes 9; Benj. F. Penninian 

So Major David Wilder (dead) 95 Col. Daniel Norcross (dead) 

81 W. F. Norcross 1^1^*96 COL. A. S. HUBBARD (elected 

82 Wm. H. Hale Sept. 6, 1876) 

83 L. H. Van Scliaick 97 C. H. Graves 

84 F. K. Miller 98 L. L. Graves 

85 Charles H. Dcnison 99 H A. Graves 

Here the roll ends as printed. 

Historic Council. 

Amos Adams, President (dead) P. W. Randle, Second Vice-Pres. (dead) 

Joseph Sharon, First Vice-Pres. (dead) Charles M. Blake. Recording Sec. (dead) 

F'rank G. Randle, Financial Secretary 

Of the sixty-fonr members now living who were borne upon the 
roll at the time it was printed, there are only five now on the roll as 
published in the Register, viz., Wm. B. Eastin, No. 13, Wm. S. 
MosKs, No. 29, Uriah Wallace, No. 32, Charles D. Wallace, 
No. 33, and John McHenry, No. 64; and A. S. Hubbard, who did 
not join the Society until September 6, 1876, was the 32d on the 
roll after John McHenry, and A. S. Hubbard's number is g6, and 
HE and A. D. Cutler claim that he is the Founder of that 
Society ! 

Now let us follow his serpentine course, wherein he not only robs 
Dr. James L. Cogswell of this credit, Init also robs that schemer 
A. M. Winn, the first on that roll. The cupriferous coverings over a* 
deceased Ethiopian's binoculars would (juickl}' vanish if he was in 
charge of the morgue where the body was laid. A. S. Hubbard in 
his history on page XI IX says that he "returned to California in 
vSeptember, 1881, and again took up the active work of the Society." 
Possessing himself of the books and records, he proceeds in his 
peculiar methods to revive the organization, taking good care not to 
erase from the roll such obstinate men as Wm. B. Eastin, Wm. S. 
Mos>ES, James P. Dameron, and a few others who would be verj' 
stubborn and difficult to manipulate; but ignoring Dr James L. 
Cogswell, the original Founder, and the great majority of two-thirds 
of the members on the roll, he pursues his course like a wily old rat 
in a very large cheese, or like the frog who got into a pan of watered 



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milk, whose struggles to get out cliunied the cream into a little pat of 
butter, which he converted into a float, from which he could leap to 
the floor and make his escape. So A. S. Hubbard became an apt 
pupil and a thorough gratluate in the school and methods of his 
preceptor and predecessor, A. M. WiNX. 

After maintaining an existence for the period of ten years under 
his manipulations, as the Historical Built tin published at Washington, 
I). C, in its issue of December r, 190^, says: "There is no relation 
of identity between the Sons of Revolutionar}' Sires and the Sons of 
the American Revolution. . . . The California Society of Sons of 
Revolutionary Sires was never merged into or identified with the 
S. A. R. or the S. R. Societies, but the members thereof transferred 
themselves in a body to the S. A. R." 

A. S. Hubbard's account on page li of his history says: — 

"From the first suggestion of the idea of forming a National 
Society, California supported the movement with enthusiasm. At a 
meeting ^ ///tf Boaid 0/ Dircctois, held March 22, 1890, the name of 
the Society was changed to 'The California Society of Sons of the 
American Revolution,' and a committee was appointed to draft a new 
Constitution ami By-Laws. Steps were taken to have the Society 
incorporated under the laws of California, and delegates were elected 
to the flrst convention of the National Society. 

"On October 19, 1891, a new Constitution and By-Laws were 
adopted," etc. 

Whether the California Societ\' of Revolutionary Sires had an 
op])<)rtunit\- to vote on this change of name or not, only the records 
will shnw. But on its face it was a bold act of usurpation on the 
jxirt of the Board of Directors, and illegal, without a dissolution of 
the incorporated body h\ a due order of court. Be that as it may, 
it was an act of abandonment of the name and body of the "California 
Society of Sons of Rexolutionary Sires." which \irtually ceased to 
exist as a bod>' c«irporale, and by the adoption of a new name and 
incorporating umier it there was a new body created entirely. 

Now here is where the little joker comes in like a double-headed 
Dutchman, worked in as b\- a thimble rigger by A. S. Hi'BHAkd and 
his clicjue in the resolutions adojHed in regard to him on September 
3d, 1S92. as being "the Founder of the California .Society of Sons of 
the American Revolution, and therefore bOunder of the Society at 
large." 

If it had been gi\en the date of March 22, 1S90, when the new 
Society was created no matter b\- what despicable means the vSociety 
of Sons of Revolutionary Sires had been made use of, and they 
kicking over the stepping stone which had aided him to make the 



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change, then perhaps, technically, the resolution was applicable to 
the founding of the new Societj' of "Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion;" but when, in its Preamble, it claims to date from October 22d, 
1875, and claims the work of Dr. James L. Cogswell and his 
associates, including myself, and says that "Col. A. S. HuhbarD' 
who aided ifi its incei)tion, and that thev recognize him as the Founder of 
the Society,'' when he was not present and did not join the Society 
until ten months afterwards, then with the original printed Roll, 
Constitution and By-Laws in the possession of both A. S. Hubbard 
and the President, A. D. Cutler, they, in their circular No 72, 
perpetHate a bare-faced fraud on their own Society, and wilfully, 
knowingly and deliberately pronuilgate an infamous lie. 

The Preaml)le to the Constitution and By-Laws of the California 
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution reads as follows (the 
italics are mine): — 

PREAMBLE. 

"Californl\ Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, instituted October 22, iSj^. The first body in inception, iiistitntion 
and orgaiiizatioji to unite the descendants of Revolutionary patriots and 
perpetuate the mi/nory of all who took part in the American Revolution 
and maintained the independeJice of the L/?iited States of America. It 
was fully and completely organized on the 4th of fuly, iSyd, under the 
name of 'Sons of Revolutionary Sires.' On the 30lh of April, 1SS9, a 
number of co-equal Societies of different states formed a general 
vSociety under the name of 'The National vSociety of the Sons of 
THE American Revolution,' in which this Society heartily co- 
operated and changed its name to the California Society of the Sons 
of the American Revolution, under which latter name it has since 
been known." 

The letter heads of that Society repeat the first half of the above 
Preamble. 

A. S. Hubbard somewhere about the time he was working his 
little game, w hich we knew nothing about, came to Dr. James L- 
Cogswkll's ofhce, then in the Evening Post Building, corner of Bush 
and Kearny Streets, to get his statement, together with my own, under 
oath, as he said, that "Eastern Societies were claiming the precedence 
over California as to the dates of organization." Neither Ur. 
Cogswell or myself had the least suspicion that he (Hubbard) was 
to eventually claim our work as his own. Dr. Cogswell gave him 
what information he could and referred him to me I wrote out in a 
general way the history of the very first meeting of the kind that was 
ever held, and in Dr. Cogswell's office, at 230 Kearny Street, on 




A (iraiidsoii of Revolutionarv Aiicestrv 



Who, l)y Order of Coiminnlore SloU, took possession of San Francisco, July 9, iS4f). ami hoisteJ 
thi- American I'laj^ in front of the Custom House on the Plaza, now Portsmouth Square. 
Tiiere is nolhinj; now there to mark the spot. What would have built a fine monu- 
ment to him has >;onedown the red lanes and gullets of the zctv pattiolic QnXiior- 
nia Society of Sons of the .\merican Revolution in San Francisco, which 
deiline<l to contribute to a stone in the Sloat Monument at Monterey. 
The Daujihters of the .American Revolution have their stone in 
place, laid on Hunker Hill Day, June tj, 1904. 



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Friday evening, October 22d. 1S75, and went with A. S. Hubbard to 
a notary public's office and made oath to it, HrBBARD paying the fee- 
A. S. Hubbard's scheme was now ripening to a condition most 
satisfactory to himself at least. The California vSociety became a 
constituent of the National Society, as his ambition was being 
gratified to the utmost extent, in office and honors of both societies, 
and his immediate associates were traveling in the same path behind 
him, and there was nothing which he might claim but it was conceded 
to him. 

There were now only five of those on the first roll who remained, 
and all the others had been adroitly dropped by him or worked out, 
and only two of the original founders of the Sons of Revolutionary 
Sires were living to dispute his false pretensions and claims; and as 
they might soon pass away by reason of their advanced age (Dr. 
Cogswell being now 74 and myself past 75 years of age), he would 
soon have the entire field to h.imself, with no one to contradict any" 
thing which he might say. 

Dr. Cogswell and myself held to our original status as Founders 
and Officers of the National Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, 
and were content to pass off the stage of action without further efforts 
in that matter, when our time should come. We were associated 
officially in the Masonic Veteran Association for the past twenty-seven 
years, and actively engaged as officers and members of the Executive 
Committee of the Sloat Monument Association with three others, who 
are members of the California Society of Sons of the American 
Revolution, and seven others of Revolutionary descent, five of whom 
are V^eterans of the Mexican War, including myself. 

The Executive Committee of the Sloat Monument Association, 
considering that Commodore Sloat, who took California, was the son 
of Captain John Sloat, an officer in ihe American Army during the 
War of the Revolution; Commodore Stockton, his successor, the 
grandson of Richard vStockton, of New Jersey, who signed the 
Declaration of Independence; Capt. John B. Montgomery, Caj^t. 
William Mervine, Capt. Joseph Hull, also grandsons of Revolutionarj' 
ancestors; Lieut. Joseph Warren Revere, the grandson of Paul 
Revere, and others who had fought in the second War lor American 
Independence and who had helped to acquire California, the Executive 
Committee thought it would be a proper thing to invite l)Oth California 
Societies of the vSons and the Daughters of the American Revolution 
to contribute the sum of $200 each, for the purpose of placing a stone 
of each societ\- side by side in the base of the Sloat Monument at 
Monterey, and towards the concrete foundation and core of the base 
of the structure. 



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To tlie invitation sent to the California Chapters of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, a most noble and hearty response was 
given, the amount was promptly furnished, the stone prepared, and on 
Bunker Hill Day, June 17. 1904. their stone was laid with due honors 
by Mrs. S. K. Likb, the Regent of Santa Vsabel Chapter of San 
Jose and representatives from other Chapters of San Francisco, 
assisted by Major John L. Bromley, our Pre.sident, and others. 

The courteous invitation .sent to the "California Society of Sons of 
the American Revolution" met with a contrary recepticm and a 
miserable declination, giving among other reasons, "that there was no 
money in their treasury." To meet this deficiency in the absence of 
that society's stone, the Bear Flag Stone of the California Republic 
was ordered by the hixecutive Committee, and it was laid at 
the same time on June 17, 1904, by the Grand Parlor of Native 
Daughters of the Golden West, which was in session at that time at 

Pacific Grove. 

We then promised the Daughters of the American Revolution that 
they should have a companion stone of true Sons of the American 
Revolution to be laid in the West Face, and next to that of the Grand 
Armv of the Republic on the northwest corner, and we ordered it 
l)repared accordingly, and in due time will lay it. 

On Sept. 12th, 1904, the 9()th Anniversary of the Battle of Balti- 
more and I'ort McHenry, which gave inspiration to the patriotic poet 
l-rancis Scott Key and birth to our National Song, the "Star Spangled 
Banner," we laid six more .stones, with the V. S. Torpedo Boat 
Destroyer Preble, Capt. Lopez commanding, firing salutes in the harbor 
of Monterey and at the site of the monument by a gun division on 
shore, while Col. Henry C. Ward, commanding at that Presidio, sent his 
band to furnish the music for the occasion. The stones laid being the 
Pre.sideiit's, Consul Parrott's, San Mateo County, the City of Oakland, 
the A. ^: A. S. Rile of Freemasonry, and that of tlie (^.rand Army of 
the Republic crowning the northwest corner of the base of the 
monument, making 48 stones laid and three-fourths of the number 
re(|uired. 

This success crowning our labors thus far, excited the ire and 
opjiosition of A. S. Hiuhard, A. D. Cutler, and others of the 
California .Society of Sons of the Anierican Revolution, wliich was 
becoming conspicuous by their own voluntary act of refusal to 
contribute, which was like that of the mule which kicked so hard 
that his hind legs drew him out of the corral altogether. 

'i'his found exj^ression in reiterating a former resolution in relation 
to .\. S. HiMHAUi) being //le Founder of the original society, intro- 
ducing it at the tail i:m\ of a banquet when celebrating the Treaty 



of Peace at Paris, and causing the society without examination to 
adopt a lie on tlic frotli of the champagne of that festive occasion, and 
a copy of the same sent to inyself and others. 

To follow this up, A. D. CuTLKR sought to have the Grand Army 
of the Republic Post at Pacific Grove to do his dirty, sneaking \vork 
and act tlic spy on the Kxccutive Committee of the Sloat Monument 
Association's work at Monterey, and he wrote to the commander of 
that post, who very properly sent it to me and to answer. The 
following is a true copy of his letter: — 

(Copv) 

"Office of Vice-President Generai,, 
"134 Market Street, San Francisco, Cai,., 
"October 27, 1904. 
"Commandant G. A. R. Post, 
"I^acific Grove, 
"Dear Sir:— 

"I would he much obliged if you would give uie the inscription on 
the stone to be placed in the base of the Sloat Monument by the Softs American 
Revolution; also adyise me whether it has been so placed, or if not, whether 
it has been prepared and made ready. 

"Respectfully, 

"A. D. Cutler, 
"Vice-President General." 

The i)onipous swelling of that kernel to a general had no effect 
on the commandant of that Grand Army Post. 

I answered the letter, informing A. D. Cuti.kr that it was none 
of his concern or business as to what would be on that particular 
stone. But that he might be relieved from any uiulue anxiety, that 
neither the name of the California Society or of the National Society 
of the vSons of the American Revolution would appear upon it. 

On Thursday, the 8th of November, I called upon Mr. Wm. S. 
Moses at his office, and at my request he kindly placed in my hands 
the printed copy of the original Constitution and By-I^aws, containing 
also the entire roll of tlie 99 members, of which A. S HrnBARn's 
number is 96, and winch he permitted me to copy, informing me at 
the .same time tliat A. I). CtiTLi';R had a copy as well as Hubbard, 
He also showed me the draft of the records kept by Miss Hobe, the 
Secretary of the Auxilliary Society, of vSept. 6th, 1876, the same day 
that A. S Hi'BBARD first joined the California Society of Sons of 
Revolutionary Sires, and thus the record has been preserved, wdiile 
both A. S. Hubbard and A. 1). Cutler have the ocular proofs in 
their own pos.sc.ssion to convict them of wilful, deliberate lying and 
of bare faced fraud practiced by them on their own society, and made 
it a party to the infamy in connection with it. 



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I k-iirii further that A. D. Cuti.kr has said that the Shjat Monu- 
ment will never be built, disparages and discourages the idea of this 
jjatriotie work, in which his "wish is father to the thought," but he 
will prove to be a false prophet nevertheless, and when the base is 
finished, three-fifths of the cost of the entire structure will have been 
paid (or, and in due time the whole will be completed. 

Forty eight stones of the sixty-,six reciuired, or three-fourths of the 
sides of the base, have been laid, and during the coming year, beyond 
a doubt, all the rest will have been laid and the guns mounted. The 
Veterans of the Mexican War, whose valor acquired California, will 
still continue to contribute from their pensions, the noble women of 
the Golden State will not relax their efforts, nor true patriotic men 
fail in their gratitude to the memory of Commodore vSloat, and to his 
officers and men of the Pacific Sciuadron, to whom all are indebted for 
their homes, their prosperity and hap])iness in this "Promised Land" 
from the crests of the .Sierra Nevada to the borders of the great 
Western sea. 

When anni\-ersaries of events of the American Revolution become 
the mere pretexts for opportunities to fill the bell>', and the destruction 
of tea in Boston harbor for all to take a drink, in the metropolis of 
California, and nothing to mark the spot on Portsmouth Square where 
the American Flag was first raised by that gallant son of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, Capt. John B. Montgomery, of the U. S. Navy, on 
July 9th, 1S46, it is a shame and disgrace, and the vaunted patriotism 
of such "degenerate .sons of noble sires," of a mere mutual admiration 
society, becomes a stench in the nostrils o{ all true honorable men 
who lo\e their country, who have done something and are still \\ illing 
to do something for it, even three thousand miles away fr(-iii the fields 
of the Revolution. 

The Sloat Monument Association will continue to l)uikl until the 
last stone is laid, the statue of Commodore Sloat will be umeiled and 
the monument dedicated by the M. W. Grand Lodge of l-'ree and 
Acce]>ted Masons of the State of California, which laid its chief corner 
stone at the northeast corner on Jul\ 7, 1S96, the 50tli anniversary of 
the raising of the American Flag at Monterey and the taking posses- 
sion of California. His brethren of the "Mystic Tie" will ever con- 
tinue to lovingl\- honor his meinor\-; lii> comrades, \'eterans of the 
Mexican War, will cherish with pride his noble achievements and 
glorious record, which his monument is to commemorate until the 
last one is mustered out; the Xati\-e vSoiis and Daughters of the 
(lolden West will look upon it as their title deed of their inheritance, 
inscribed upon imperishable granite; the Daughters of the American 
Revolution can boast of the heroic deeds of the true Sons oi the 



American Revolution represented in this monument, and the Federated 
Women s Clubs, Pioneer Mothers and Daughters of California, and 
the grateful and really patriotic people of this Golden State will lay 
their offerings on that common altar of their country, while the Grand 
Army of the Republic will relieve the Veterans of the Mexican War 
when finally nuistered out, and the military arm of the Unite i States 
Government, will ever shield and protect it from harm; countless 
thousands of pilgrims, tourists and others will visit that sacred spot, 
and read the names of the Counties and Cities, of Societies of patriotic 
men and women of California, and pay tribute to the Revolutionary 
blood which flowed in the veins of the gallant men who acquired 
California by their courage and valor, and gave to our country its 
most valued territory, whose mountains are seamed with gold and 
silver, its soil sown with seeds of gold, its valleys and plains teeming 
with the best fruits of the world and the fairest women on earth, upon 
which shines the sun, and they receiving the first and last kisses of 
the god of day when he ascends to his throne from the mountain's 
crests, and retires to his retreat with his smiles beaming through our 
Golden Gate and shining over the broad Pacific. 

The original "National Society of SotKS of Revolutionary Sires," 
with two of its oflicers and founders still living, who gave it birth on 
October 22d, 1875, now of necessity will be revived, and as originally 
intended, will commemorate the deeds of all who have been true to 
their blood from the foundation of the Republic, whether in wars or 
as honored representatives of the people in public station, and by their 
fruits we shall know them. It will not confine its membership to the 
male sex alone. The unknown lady who furnished that communica- 
tion to the A/ta-Califoyfiia on June 26, 1876, sounded the keynote of 
the bugle's call for the Centennial Celebration in San Francisco by 
both sexes of the descendants of our Revolutionary ancestry, and we 
would l)e ungallant indeed not to embrace our patriotic sisters of the 
same common blood and lineage. 

All in whom flows the blood of Revolutionary fathers and 
mothers are "Sons and Daughters of Revolutionary Sires," "Sons 
and Daughters of the American Revolution," or "Sons and Daughters 
of the Revolution," or by any other name, having their origin from 
the same source. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution 
and Flag of our Country belongs to all alike, and no societ}- or organi- 
zation has a corner on, or ])atent, or co])yright on either of these titles 
to the exclusion of others, whelhcr incorporated or not; and for A. I). 
CuTLiiR or any one else, who would try to interpose or interfere with 
the work of the vSloat Monument Association at Monterey will l)e as 
successful as a snake in bitimr a file. 




LiErTHNANT JOSi:i'H WARREN RlvVIvRI':, U. S. 

(I.ate Brigadier General U. S. A., deceiised.) 

Grandson of the famous Tatriot, Pai K Ri;vkkk, of the AuK-rican Revolution. 



Who lowered Ihe Benr Flag and raised the American Flag at Sonoma, Cal., July 9, 1846, by order 

of Conimodoie John I). Sloit, U. S. N.. and Commander John B. Montgomery of the 

V. S. Sloop of War "Portsnionlh. 



If. while en<^aCTecl in the erection of the vSloat Monument, we have 
been made the instrunit^nts incidentally to unmask the fraud, deceit, 
lying and intrigue of those who have prostituted patriotism, in the 
manner described, and the Society of Sons of the American Revolution 
shall purge and cleanse itself of such characters and redeem itself, then 
this unpleasant duty which has been forced upon us will have been 
productive of some gooil. 

The Sloat Monument Association will continue its labors regard- 
less of the secret or open hostility of the Hubbard-Cutler cabal, 
whenever and wherever it may assert itself, and ^ve shall let them rot)t 
and wallow in the sty of their own infamy, while we are grateful to 
our patriotic friends, ladies, gentlemen, friends, comrades and broth- 
ers, who have nobly aided us and given us their cordial encouragement 
and hearty support. Respectfully, 

Edwin A. Sherman, 
Secretary of the Sloat Monument Association. 



P. S. — Since the foregoing was written and passed under the press, 
the following letter has been received from Mr. \Vm B Eastin, the 
first permanent Secretary of the California Society of Sons of Revolu- 
tionary Sires : 

[Copy of Letter of W. B. Eastin, former Secretary.] 

40S California St., San Francisco, 
Major Edwin A. Sherman, Dec. 27th, [904. 

Oakland. 

My Df;ar Sir: 

Found your letter awaiting me on my return to the Citv and regret the delay. 
Friend Moses should haye told you that Dr. WiUard was apjiointed Secretary /ri? 
tent,, at the first meeting held at 212 Kearny Street. I was a few days later elected 
the permanent Secretary and recorded the names enrolled at the first meeting and 
cannot remember all who were present at that meeting. This I do remember, that 
there were 25 persons present, all of whom signed the roll personally. I am in- 
clined to think that Dr. Cogswell was one of the number, but cannot say certainly. 

If you will call, I will gladlv giye you all the information in my possession. 
Very truly yours, W. B. EASTIN. 

Whether Dr. James L Cogswell, the President of the National 
Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires, elected at the finst meeting 
held at his office on Friday evening, October 22nd, 1875, signed the 
roll or was enrolled by the vSecretary pio tern., at the meeting held on 
June 29th, 1876, at 212 Kearny St., San T-'rancisco, and the California 
Society organized with other officers and members as already stated, 
did not affect his standing as President of the National Society nor my 
own as Vice-President for the State of Nevada, and I was at that time 
serving as such at Philadelphia at the Centennial. 

A. S. Hubbard, in a pamphlet hi.story, gives Dr. Peter Wilkins 
Randle as "Provisional President" of the California Society, which is 
not the truth, and there is nothing in the records whatever to show it. 
He was, however, Vice President of the National A.ssociation, elected 
October 22, 1875, for the State of California, which office he held until 
his death. Edwin A. vShkrman, 

Secretary of the Sloat Monument Association. 



Copy of Affidavit of Dr. James L. Cogswell written 
by himself on the back of a copy of the first circular and 
sworn to before the Hon. L. A. Slane, U. S. Commissioner 
at Sitka, Alaska, where he is temporarily sojourning at his 
daughter's, Mrs. Wm. P. Mills, the wife of a prominent 
merchant of that place. 

(Copy) 

Sitka, Alaska, Oct. 20, 1904. 
"I have read carefully the statement in this circular 
in regard to Mr. A. S. Hubbard and the Sons of the 
American Revolution b}^ Edwin A. Sherman, and can 
testify that it is correct. 

"J- L. Cogswell." 

United States ) 
District of Alaska > ss. 

Division No. i I 

... ' 

This is to certify. That on the 20th day of October, 

A. D. 1904, before me, L. A. Slane, a U. S. Commissioner 
for the District of Alaska, duly commissioned and sworn, 
personally appeared J. L. CoGSWELL, known to me to be 
the person whose name is subscribed to the within state- 
ment in this circular, and swears that same is true. 

— ■ — In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set 

I ( ni}- hand and seal at my office in Sitka in the 

j I above mentioned District, the day and year in 

> — .^. — ' this certificate first above written. 

L. A. Slane, 

U. S. Commissioner. 

We certify that the foregoing is a correct copy as appears 
on the back of the first circular. 

Carruth .S: Carruth, Printers. 



SUPPLEMENT TO THE FIRST CIRCULAR 

THE FOUNDERS OF THE "SOCIETY OF SONS OF 

REVOLUTIONARY SIRES/' NOW "SONS OF 

THE cAMERICAN T^EVOLUTION " 



"He that is first in his own cause soenieth just; hut his ncighhor couieth and 
searchetli him." — Provkrhs. 

"Methinks the lady doth protest too much."— ShakESpkare. 

I was the Representative from the vState of Nevada at the Centen- 
nial Celebration of American Independence at Philadelphia on July 4, 
1.S76, of the Veterans of the Mexican War and of the "Sons of Rkvo- 
LfTiox.VRY .SiRKs," now called "Sons of tiik Ainikric.vx Rhvolu- 
TioN," ori^ani/.ed at San Franci.sco, California, on October 22nd, 1.S75, 
of which Dr Jamks L. Cogswkll was the Chairman and Actini; 
President, and Dr. Pkter Wilkins Randt.e, Capt. Richard Rush 
Randlk, Dr. Emory L. Willard, Judge Joseph Wkkd, Ira C. 
Root, and one or two others whose names are forgotten, and my.self, 
who were the original founders of that society, of whom Dr Jamks L. 
CocswKi.i, and my.self, both California pioneers of 1849, are the only 
living ]iersons who were present and gave birth to that organization. 
Mr. A. S. Hubbard, the Rjegister of the California Society of Sons of 
the American Revolution, was not present at that meeting for organi/a- 
tion, nor do I know when he became a member, but, at his recpiest, I 
furnished the above statement under oath before a Notary Public in 
Sar. Francisco, and he accom])anied me and paid the fee. This was 
done to acconunodate him, to confirm the claim that the Society was 
first organized in California, as against the claims of Eastern .societies. 
He has made it a part of the history of that society-. 

i^- I his stateinc7it is hete ^iven to prevent fraud beiv;::; perpetrated 
by othet persons zvho are said to claim to be the foimders of that orgayiiza- 
tion. 

See pages \'l, XLI, and IXIII of the History and Register of the 
C amforma Society of Sons of the American Revolution," 
.ind also pages 31^ and 317 of "Fifty Years of Masonry in Cali- 
fornia," of which I was the Editor. 

The rea.son for ])ublication of the foregoing statement was, that a 
paper i.ssued as Circular No 72, purporting to be i.ssued by the Cali- 
fornia Society of Sons of the American Revolution, which claims to 
have been instituted October 22nd, 1S75, and after laudatory remarks 
in a re.solution, concerning A. S. Hubbard and his services, etc., 
states that which is unqualifiedly untrue and absolutely without any 
foundation wliatsoever, and directly contrary to the facts given by 
himself in his own history, and which he obtained from Dr. James L. 
Coc.swELi. and myself, the only living founders of the original organi- 
zation, and to which I again refer. In this Circular No. 72, it says 
that 'Col. A. S. Hi'RBARD, ivho aided in its inceptioyi'' etc., "there- 

l-ORE it RKCOCiXIZKS HI.M AS THE FOUNDER OF THE C.VLIFORNIA 



Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and there- 
fore Founder of the Society at Large! " 

A. S. Hubbard was not present when the Society was first organ- 
ized on Friday evening, October 22nd, 1875, and it was on motion of 
Dr. Pp:ter Wilkins Randle. that it was unanimously made a 
National Society at the start, that I might be recognized as one of its 
founders from the State of Nevada, and the California Division of it 
was to be subordinate to the National, I retaining my membershij) in 
the National oigani/ation as the Representative and ex offi,cio pro tcvi. 
as the Vice-President for the State of Nevada. With the State Divis- 
ion of California, I have never been connected, nor have I claimed to be. 

I never knew A. S. Hubbard until several years afterw ards, nor 
have I had any business connections with him whatsoever, nor so far 
as I know have I been an aspirant for any position or rival for any 
office of any kind whatever, and we have no special interests and never 
had, in common together. 

Since my first circular was issued, I have learned from a most 
reliable source that A. S. Hubbard did not become a viember witil 
about one year ajter it was teniporarihjorganized on October 22^ /c^/J, 
and that he became a member in Q^eSm-, i8']6, and that his number on 
the roll is l)ff. He was proposed and elected as a member in . Ootober r »^^^^ (a , 
1876, and the same evening w^as elected President of the "Vouiig 
Men's Auxiliary vSociety." The original roll and Bv-Laws are in the 
po.s.session of Mr. William S. Moses, the first Marshal of that soci- 
ety, and from July ist, 1876, and held that office for twenty-one con- 
secutive years, and to him particularly is the society indebted for 
holding the organization intact from the first of July, 1876, and for a 
considerable length of time he kept the coal of fire alive in the l)ed of 
a.shes, when a favorable wind and fresh fuel was added to rekindle it 
anew, and he paid a portion of the expenses out of his own pocket, the 
credit of which A. S. Hubbard now arrogates entirely to himself, 
regardless of the facts and truths of history in this matter. The deeds 
of both the living and the dead founders and promoters of the society 
he has appropriated and claims for himvSelf , which is a direct unblush. 
ing fraud on his part, and those who aid and abet him in it. 

This matter would not now have been brought to notice but for 
the covert malice and intent betrayed in the preamble to the resolution 
in Circular No. 72 of the Hubbard-Cutlery Board of Managers of the 
California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the cause 
for which may be understood from the following facts in brief: 

By direction of the Executive Conunittee of the Sloat Monument 
A.ssociation, I, as Secretary, extended invitations to both Societies of 
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, to make the appro- 
priation of $200 each, to provide .stones to represent their respective 
societies in the base of the Sloat Monument at Monterey, and towards 
the concrete core and foundation of the same and expenses in connec- 



tion with it. The Daughters of the American Revolution, filled with 
the spirit of American patriotism and the pride of California, promptly 
and nobly responded. Rut the following extract from the letter of the 
vSccretary of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revo- 
lution will show a different condition. In his reply he said : 

"The ()])ini<)n of the Hoard of Managers was, that the S. A. R. 
vSocicty, being organized for the specific purpose of perpetuating the 
memory and deeds of the men who achieved the Independence of the 
American people in the Revolutionary War, ;7 is not within the province 
of the Board to make an appropriation for this purpose, yiotwithstanding 
its laudable character and the petsonal sympathy of such tnembers as favor 
the project . . and finally, the financial condition of the Society^ s 

treasury -would not admit oj such appropriation T ' 

Such an exul)erant spirit of patriotism and self-sacrifice, down- 
wards, is without a parallel in California's history. "The Daughters 
of the American Revolution" foutid no such niisera])le. technical pre- 
texts, but promptly acted upon our inxitation, raised the money by 
contribution among themselves, and had the pleasure of laying their 
stone side by side with that of the P>ear IHag on the same day, June 
17th. 1904, by the Grand Parlor of Native Daughters of the Golden 
West, laid by them at the same time. 

The animating spirit in the Board of Managers of the California 
Society of Sons of the American Revolution which has placed its 
standard of patriotism so low, where it is, is A. S. Hulibard, who 
c'aims to be Thp: original founder of that and of the National Societ}', 
which is as far from tlie truth as light is from darkness, and his meth- 
ods of practice are but in line with one particular act which every 
Daughter of the American Revolution should be made acquainted with, 
that the> may fully understand the animus which has prompted him 
to oppose b\- his intrigue with his Board of Managers thai has caused 
that Society to decline to be represented in the Sloat Monument at 
Monterey, and its gallantry so clearlj' manifested as to be on a par with 
that of the patriotic spirit and California pride of that Society under 
the management of such a Board. 

Some years ago I received a letter from the lady, the wife of A. S. 
Hubbard, asking about the "Little Liberty Bell," made out of chip- 
pings of the Old Liberty Bell of the Revolution, of Independence Hall 
at Philadelphia, and belonging to the Masonic Veteran Association 
of the Pacific Coast. I courteously replied giving her the desired 
information, and which she furnished as an article published in the 
vSan P'rancisco Call, on August 14th. 1S93. At the time I responded 
to her re(|uest. in my letter, I asked her why the ladies of her Societ}', 
the "Se(|Uoia," did not plant a "Liberty Tree" in Golden Gate Park, 
and as it was a patriotic society, that it would be a good thing to have 
parcels of soil from the battle-fields of the Republic, and the tombs of 
VVashington. Lincoln, and other distinguished men and patriots of our 



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country, and to make a beginning, that T would send her a package 
of earth from Abraham Lincoln's Toml) in Oak Ridge Cemetery at 
Springfield, 111., which I brought from there myself. She thought 
fav'orably of it, and I delivered the package in person to her husband, 
A. S. Hubbard, which he delivered to her. 

When the time came for planting the tree, notice having been given 
through the public press, and invitations extended of which I received 
one in connnon with others, yet in the delay of receiving it, and under 
the peculiar circumstances, it seemed .somewhat suspicious, and I pre- 
pared myself, Avith another package of earth from Lincoln's tomb, and 
went at once to the site in Golden Gate Park, where the tree was to 
be ])lanted. There was a lady sitting on the low platform, who had tlie 
programs, and I asked her for one which she obligingly gave me. On 
it there was no mention whatever made of earth from Abraham Lin- 
coln's Tomb. At this I felt indignant, having suggested the planting 
of the Liberty Tree in the first place, and the greatest sacrifice to 
Liberty, the Martyr President Abraham Lincoln, being left off from 
the program. I waited until the President of the Day, Mrs. Henry 
M. Wetherbee, arrived, and made known to her the facts in the 
matter, and stated that I did not want to create any trouble, but that 
I would appeal to the American people present and state the facts, 
and after their exercises were through, I would consecrate the roots 
of the tree with the earth that had once covered the form of Abraham 
Lincoln. Mrs. Wetherbee most graciously and kindly thanked me for 
so thoughtfully bringing it, and said she would add it to the program, 
and did. 

After the military and crowd of people arrived, among them came 
A. S. Hubbard and his wife. The latter then came to me and said : 
"The Committee had decided not to u.se the .soil from Lincoln's Tomb, 
for there were so many Southern ladies who belonged to Sefjuoia 
Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution who would 
object, and it would give offense, so the Connnittee had decided to 
leave it out." She did not know of the arrangement already made 
with Mrs. Wether])ee, the President of the Day. 

Just before the la,st number on the program was given, Mrs. Weth- 
erbee announced that there was one additional con.secration to be made. 
At the proper time, she announced that the whole would be con.se- 
crated with earth from Abraham Lincoln's Tomb by Major K. A. 
Sherman. With uncovered head I marched through the lines, the 
military presenting arms, and I reverently strewed the .sacred earth 
over the rest, and received the thanks of Mrs. Wetherbee and many 
others, and the ceremonies of the day were concluded. 

The statement of Mrs. Hubbard that it would give offense to the 
Southern ladies of Secjuoia Chapter would have been indignantly 
resented by them, as it was a gratuitous matter on her ]>art, and un- 
called for, and she must have forgotten that it was the vSouthern ladies 



who first scattered flowers on Union soldiers' graves in the vSouth, and 
that we are realh- indel)ted to them for "Memorial Day." 

A. S. Hnbbard was really responsible for this lack of wisdom and 
good judgment on the part of his wife in her action, which was 
I)rompted by him, judging from his whole course in relation to 
the California Society of Sons of the American Revolution. That he 
has been industrious and indefatigable in adding to its numbers is 
undisi)uteil; and many S(|uare, honorable and upright men and gen- 
tlemen are now enrolled within it, who would spurn the false pretense 
and dishonest claims of A. S. Hubbard of being the Founder of the 
National and State .Societies, if they but knew the facts here presented 
and would take the trouble to tlioroughl\- investigate for themselves. 
It is not a cjuestion of the mere priorit)- of founding the Society 
that is presented, but that of its being used and abused in the manner 
that it is, and has been, and which may be continued indefinitely, in 
preventing the success, if possil)le, of the erection of the Sloat Monu- 
ment, by not only refu.sing to aid in its construction, as a Society, 
while some of its members, from motives ot their own, are evidently 
doing what they can to retard it, which only serves to stimulate to 
more ardent action on the part of its promoters, in spite of these 
"degenerate sons of illustrious sires." 

The history of our country has shown, as a general thing, that the 
heroes of one war are to be found active partici]iants in the next 
which follows. Those who fought in the French and Indian War 
were veterans to enter the ^American army during the American 
Revolution. A large percentage of the Revolutionary War heroes 
were found in the second war for American Independence in 1812- 
1S14. Those who fought in the latter war, like Taylor, Scott, Worth, 
Wool and others of the army, and Connor, Perry, Sloat, Biddle, Stock- 
ton, Shubrick and others, also were tiie chief heroes of the war with 
Mexico in 1S46-S, which gave us California. Those who came to the 
front in the Mexican War as lieutenants and captains, became the 
generals who fought the great battles ot the Ci\'il War, on both sides, 
and tho.se who fought for the Union are not to be muzzled in the 
presence of the reconstructed Confederate, nor the latter when in the 
presence of those more successful than he. The Sons of Revolution- 
ary sires, in the course of time, were left to mutually fight out on the 
battle-field the diflicult ([uestions which in debate their iathers had 
failed to settle Those who were opposed to each other in 1S61-5 
were united under one flag in 1S98-9, during the Spanish and Philip- 
pine Wars, and the blood of the Revolutionary bathers has contin- 
ued to flow unceasingly in the veins of their descendants, and to 
be poured out like water in defense of their country and its flag. 

It was not the intention of the original founders of the "Society 
of Sons of Revolutionary Sires," now "Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion," to confine it .solely to matters pertaining to the American 



Revolution, and make it only a Mutual Admiration Societ3^ for as 
such it could never have crossed the Alle^^hanies; but whenever and 
wherever our Revolutionary blood was reciuired and represented and 
shed in any subsequent war for the flag and our common country, 
there that blood was to be honored, whether in the acciuisition of 
California by Commodore John Drake Sloat, or in the capture of 
Santiago, Cuba, during the war with Spain, by our own fellow-citizen 
and gallant soldier. Gen. Wm M. Shatter, whose splendid trophy, 
generously given by him, a Louis de Bourbon cannon, to the city of 
San Francisco, is now lying in front of the City Hall. 

Commodore Sloat 's father was a captain in the American Army 
during tjie War of the Revolution, who was unfortunatelj- shot, 
shortly before his son was born. Captain John B. Montgomery, who 
took San Francisco, the grandson of another Revolutionary hero, 
Lieut. Joseph Warren Revere, who lowered the Bear flag and raised 
the American flag at Sonoma, was the grandson of the famous Paul 
Revere of the Revolution. Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who 
succeeded Commodore Sloat here in command, was the grandson of 
Richard Stockton of New Jersey, one of the signers of the Declara- 
tion of Independence, and afterw^ards suffered severely from British 
imprisonment in New York. 

The California Daughters of the American Revolution will in due 
time have a companion stone of the "Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion," bearing these and other illustrious names worthy to be called 
such, and have deserved the honor. The name "Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution' ' belongs to all in whom the Revolutionary blood 
flows, no matter whether they belong to any organized society of such 
or not. The American flag and the American Constitution and Laws 
belong to all alike, and to no particular individual or set of men is 
given a patent right, nor can there be, to the exclusion of others. 

We shall continue to build, complete and dedicate and unveil the 
Sloat Monument at Monterey, wdiere the American flag was first 
unfurled to the breeze in California by Commodore Sloat. 

If there are small peo])le, with small intellects, and wnth hearts 
that will rattle in them like filbert-nuts they should be sent to the 
Home of the Feeble-minded and clad in ''Mother Hubbards" for the 
rest of their natural lives, and have a Cut/er to look after their knives 
to see that they do not cut themselves. 

Ninety five per cent of the Sloat Monument Association and its 
Executive Conunittee belong to the Masonic Fraternity and to the 
Masonic Veteran Association of the Pacific Coa.st, of which both 
Dr. James L- Cogswell and Wm. S. Moses are Past Grand Presidents, 
and of wdiich latter A. S. Hubbard is not a menil)er, and is in very 
poor business in his efforts to retard or defeat the erection of a 
National Monument in honor of a patriot like Commodore Sloat, who, 
like Washington, was a Mason, and buried like him with military and 



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Masonic honors. He and his confederates have been successful in 
only one thing, and that is in preventing that Society from being 
honorably represented in the Sloat Monument, and it is now conspic- 
uous only by voluntarily leaving itself out. 

h'inally in relation as to the credit of the priority of the organiza- 
tion of the Sons of the American Revolution in fact, but not l)y title, 
it belongs to the Congressional Committee appointed under an Act of 
Congress, on December 29th, 1872, consisting of tune members 
apjiointed by the Hon. James (i. Blaine, the Speaker of that Body, 
and consisted of the following true Sons of the American Revolution, 
to wit: Wni. D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, Penn ; Henry L. Dawes, of 
Pitt.sfield, Mass ; Horace Maynard, of Knoxville Tenn.; Aaron A. 
Sakcknt, of Nevada City, California; Joseph R. Hawley, of 
Coiniecticut; Harrison E. Havens, of Missouri; Samuel S. Cox, of 
New York; .Sanuiel S. Marshall, of Illinois, and John Hancock, of 
Texas, who selected other true Sons of the American Revolution in 
organizing the Celebration of the Centennial Annixersary of American 
Independence at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1876, 
when (iKN. U. S. Gkant, President of the United States, was 
President of the Day; Richard Henry Lee. whose grandfather 
signed the Declaration of Independence, which he read from the 
original manuscript: Bayard Taylor, the Poet of the Day, a grand- 
son of another signer; and the Hon. William M. Evart.s, the 
Orator of the Day, and the grandson of Roger Sherman, one of the 
C«)nunittee with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams. Benjamin 
Kkanklin, and Philip Livingston appointed to draft the Declara- 
tion of American Independence. 

Here it may be said, that the Sons of the American Revolution 
as an organized body were created by an Act of Congress two years 
!)efore, and publicly assembled to perform the honorable and patriotic 
duties assigned to them on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the 
birth of the .\merican Republic. 

I was there pre.sent as the Representative from Nevada of the 
National Society of Sons of Rexolutionary Sires, which I helped to 
organize at San Francisco on ()ctol)er 22d, 1S75, but now known as 
"vSons of the American Revolution," and I still retain a co])y of the 
program of the Centennial Celebration at Pliiladelj^hia, for which 
Congress made an appropriation of three millions of dollars. "Uncle 
Sam" himself was the real founder, and President U. S. Grant 
signed the first bill on March 3d, 1871. On June ist, 1872, he 
approved the bill, incorporating the Centennial Exposition with no 
less than 768 incorporators, selected from every Congressional district 
in the United States, and per.sonally named in the Act. Those named 
from California were A. S. Hallidie, Thomas H. Selby, George 
OrLTON, Nathan Coomhs. William C. Ral.ston, Milton S. 
Latham, Leland Stanford, Edgar Mills, L. B. Mizner, John 
J. I)e Haven, John G. Downey, and T. Ellard Beans. 

It was the aj^jiroaching of the Centennial Year of American Inde- 
I^ndence that began to stir the American Revolutionary blood in Cali- 
fornia to action, and to Dr. James L. Cogswell is the credit especially 
due of taking the first step for its organization in San h'rancisco on 
October 22d, 1875, at which I was present by invitation and assi.sted 
in the temporary organization of a National Society as the "Sons of 
Revolutionary Sires " now "Sons of the American Revolution." Dr. 
Cogswell was not treated with due consideration by the new members 
who came to his office by advertised invitation, and all that he and 



the others had done for the eight months previous was not taken into 
account, but in the interest of selfish individuals who had enrolled 
themselves upon his invitation, and on the same evening the ])lace of 
meeting was switched away from his office to that of the Grand ■ 
Marshal of the 4th of July Procession, Gen. A. M. Winn, and from 
thence to the Palace Hotel, and soon, as the latter intended, he was 
elected President of the California Society of the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, which soon under his administration he ran into the 
ground; and then turned his attention to younger blood, and with 
greater success for them became the "Father of the Native Sons of 
the Golden West," married a most estimable lady for his second 
wife, the widow of James King of Wm., retired to her estate near 
Sonoma, where he lived a few years and died. 

The treatment which Dr. Cogswell and his co-laborers had 
received after having given birth to the "Sons of Revolutionary 
Sires" made him somewhat passive in that organization. Mr. 
William S. Moses, who had become a member, and was elected the 
first Marshal on July i, 1876, and for twenty-one consecutive years 
afterwards, is the one to which the Society is chiefly indebted for its 
preservation as stated, and a meml^er nearly four months before A. S. 
Hubl)ard joined it, which was a whole year after it had been 
organized on October 22d, 1875. 

Rightfully, Dr. James L. Cogswell is still the President of the 
National Society of Sons of the Revolutionary Sires, he never having 
l)een removed or resigned; and the action of the California Society 
though having its birth at the same time and changing its name has 
not affected either him or myself in that National Body. True, it is 
dormant as a body, but its members are very lively in all patriotic 
work and in the erection of the vSloat Monument at Monterey, and 
have something to point to as the fruit of our labors, and are not 
merely a "Mutual Admiration Society," while our principles and 
motives are best expressed in Longfellow's "Psalm of Life": — 

"The lives of great men all retuiud us. 
That zae can make our lives sublime; 

And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time." 

Tlie vSloat Monument is the only National Monument attempted to 
be erected on the Pacific Coast. The "California Society of vS(ms of 
the Revolution" was invited to be represented in it, and through its 
Board of Managers, influenced by A. S. Hubbard, it spurned the 
invitation, and to its disgrace it has lost its golden opportunity, while 
the "Daughters of the American Revolution" now have a double 
honor for their patriotism and pride. 

There are not less than twelve of the Executive Conmiittee of the 
Sloat Monument Association who are "vSons of Revolutionary Sires," 
and two of them are the only living founders of that Society now 
known as "Sons of the American Revolution," and we shall not 
abandon our Sisters, the "Daughters of the American Revolution," 
who have come so nobly to our aid, and they shall have a Companion 
Stone to match their own in due time. 

Very respectfully, 

EDWIN A. SHERMAN, 33°, 
R. V. Grand Secretary of the Masonic Veteran Association of the 

Pacific Coast for twenty six years. 
Secretary of the Sloat Monument Association for eighteen years. 
Oakland, CaL, October 16, rgo4. 



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